NBC, are your recent efforts so terrible cuz you can’t find good writers? Trust me, they are out there, dying to write good and smart fiction that people want to watch. Is it cuz you feel the need to dumb everything down to make it more accessible to the masses?
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For god’s sake, Liz Lemon. Get your crap together and get a bloody therapist because after three hours of live TV, your shenanigans aren’t funny. And, by the way? I’m sick of your wardrobe. There’s more to life than Oxford shirts and V-neck sweaters.I’m sick of your little blazers, Oxford shirts and V-neck sweaters.
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With a fragmented TV landscape, DVRs and Netflix to deal with, it’s a tough call for any network these days as to what they should really invest in. As proven with last year’s Superbowl and shows like Idol and DWTS, the live events are the ones that are really garnering the massive views while the regular dramas and comedies vie for the capricious whims of the viewing public who have too much to choose from on any given night. Not every network can have a watershed show like Glee but at least they can try to do some more creative programming that what NBC is currently doing.
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By Keri – I’m afraid The Event may be my rebound show. Like FlashForward, The Event has that mysterious, epic vibe where every lift of an eyebrow is filled with tension and heavy foreboding. FlashForward was THAT show, the show that drew me in with its flashy premise and immersive world building, kept me with strong characters and then squandered it.
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Now that Jay Leno, the monster that ate primetime in 2009/2010, has gorged himself and lumbered back to his lair, NBC has a lot of air time to fill. This is what they’ve got for the next season. Overall, it’s a very safe lineup with familiar stars, familiar creators, and familiar set ups.
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By Shawn Deena – Big announcements came out this week about the cancellation of one of NBC’s longest running shows; one has to wonder what prompted them to make the change. For fans of the show that has become an icon of the procedural crime, the big question to ask is why kill one of your most well known and consistently strong dramas. Why, NBC?
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By Shawn Deena – Some of you may be too young to remember NBC’s glorious Thursday night heyday. Jumping into the DeLorean back to the 80s you had the behemoth that was The Cosby Show to lead their Thursday night lineup. A decade later we had Friends, and then of course there was the Seinfeld age. Good times. In this hallowed two-hour block, NBC started to falter post-Seinfeld and had has been trying to recapture the glory days that was once dubbed Must-See-TV.
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By Lisa Fary – Don’t look so surprised, NBC. You had to know this was coming. The important thing is that we’re all here because we care about you and want to help you beat your addiction. Your addiction to failure.
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By Lisa Fary – I love it when unexpected packages show up at my door. For a second, I might let myself think it’s something form a relative I’ve forgotten about or never knew that will propel me on some worldwide adventure. Then I realize that I don’t have a passport, making such an adventure a bureaucratic nightmare. Just when I think it’s really better to stay home because I get so pissy when tired, I notice that the box is from a PR company. Adventure fantasy canceled.
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By Lisa Fary – With Jay Leno stuffing himself full of prime time TV hours next season, is there room at NBC for any new programs? Here is NBC’s 2009-2010 schedule:
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The public owns the airwaves. So, why is NBC pissing all over our property? (For once, this isn’t about Heroes or Journeyman!)
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This just popped in to the email at pinkraygun.com about five minutes ago. Thought we should share. Related Stuff:
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By Heather Cee As you’ve probably heard by now, Journeyman is teetering on the brink of cancellation. With fellow NBC shows Life and Chuck receiving reprieves at the guillotine, Kevin Falls’ increasingly smart, dynamic, and just damn good show has yet to be renewed, and rumors of its fate resting on this two-part episode’s ratings [...]
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By TrinityVixen Apparently, one of the powers absenting itself from this episode is intelligence. I lost count of how many cripplingly moronic things people did in this episode, but I’m guessing the number is close to the number of dead-on-delivery lines. If ever the major studios and networks wanted proof that they really do need [...]
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By Melissa Voelker Tonight’s very special episode begins with a bar wake for poor Antonio, with everyone sitting around a table drinking and looking forlorn. That’s right, I almost forgot he bit it at the end of the last episode. It was done so quickly and in such an overused, cliché type of way that [...]
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“The plane that’s supposed to take you to Phoenix hasn’t left it’s previous airport yet,” the desk agent said at 9 PM the Monday before Thanksgiving. The flight was supposed to leave at 9:05 PM and then I’d have a fifteen minute window to run to my connecting flight. Now, I’d miss that flight in [...]
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By TrinityVixen Looks like I was wrong about a few things last week. For starters, Adam and Peter have their heads so far up their asses, so they haven’t got time to go mucking about in the resurrection business. Mohinder hasn’t learned diddly or squat since almost murdering someone. And Elle isn’t going to be [...]
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